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I am hoping to have my sopo changed as I am building a new

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Hi I am hoping to have my sopo changed as I am building a new life with my partner and wondered what I need to write so her family can visitAssistant: Where are you located? It matters because laws vary by location.Customer: Norfolk englandAssistant: Has anything been filed or reported?Customer: Filed or reported in what way?Assistant: Anything else you want the solicitor to know before I connect you?Customer: I was released In Jan 2014 my probation has finished and I have spoken with ppu about this they told me to write to the crown court I was just wondering what to write

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I would like some advice on what I need to write to court to apply to have my sopo changed so family can come to visit at my home. My ppu officer has said I should be able to change it by applying to court. To start I would hope for a change to supervised contact.I am building a new life with myPartner and we both have family that we would love to visit and this change would make it possible

You can make an application to vary this order. Nobody can stop you doing that. These orders are often varied. However, you have to show a change of circumstances.

It might be that nobody envisaged this particular circumstance when the judge imposed the order. On the face of it, I would expect there to be concerned about this.

I don't know what's your SOPO says but this is not unsupervised contact if you just propose for her family to visit. Obviously any interested person would need to be notified and probably attend court to give evidence of their support.

I am growing a happy relationship with my partner who has 3 children the youngest who is 19 and looking to the future when they have children of their own it would be nice if they were able to visit.Also my sister has a daughter who is 12 and it would be nice to be able to invite them to the house

I have spoken with PPU about this change and they are happy for me to write to the court to ask for the change. I was just looking for advice on what I would need to write when applying to the court for this change

You need to write to the court giving notice of your intention to apply for variation to allow for various visitors and asking them to list it. You need to send CPS a copy as they are entitled to know if your intentions.Ideally the firm that held legal aid for you originally would do it for you.

I'm do not want to apply for unsupervised it was a missunderstanding in my wording I wrote no unsupervised contact so I will be applying to have my sopo changed to allow supervised contact at my address. My sopo does not allow anyone u 16 to visit my address , this is what I'm hoping to change

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